Autismus Intentional Creativity Selbstannahme

Living Your Legendary life

Living your legendary self (text on painting in progress of a strange creature with antlers, a cat's nose, small tusks and a tawny owl in the antlers) ©2025 Johanna Ringe www.johannaringe.com

Today I will probably not write that much. Because I am living in the legendary realm of image and imagination these days. I am taking a weeklong Intentional Creativity® class with Shiloh Sophia McCloud at Musea which is called Living Your Legend. I am joining online, and as the schedule is California-centered, I have a weird rhythm right now. We are starting to gather at sunset. Painting and writing until the darkest hours of the night. Trying to find sleep and finding inspiration instead.

A Break from the ordinary

It is deep work, personal development work happening on the canvas and in the journal, and it fits in seamlessly with the work I did in the past weeks and months. I have immersed myself in the deep sea of neurodiversity and resurfaced with a pearl of wisdom: As surprising as it may come to others, as natural it feels to me to realize that I am on the autism spectrum. I am a highly compensating autistic person (you may now it has been called „Asperger’s“), and I am female, so not what you typically believe autism to be like. I will probably write about this more in the future because this is how I roll, I learn and share. For now, for today I just want to share this:

Intentional Creativity® is such a powerful tool!

As I work through the Legend Course, I integrate so much that has been surfacing in those last months. I have always been different and have already been gathering the misfits for years. Knowing about my high iq and my highly sensitive system has changed my life so much for the better, and given me the best job in the world. But the knowledge of autism gives me peace. More peace than I ever had, I believe.

I am all right just the way I am.

I am me. With all the quirks and complications, I am exactly right as I am. There shall be no more “Smile, darling, come on!” and no “Why can’t I just be normal for once?” and no „Why is this so exhausting for me?“ in my future. Because I am all right. I am me. That might well be different from how you are – but, hey, I respect that. I respect you, even if I may not understand you fully.

You be you. I be me. And we be us.

And let’s both be our most brilliant, most alive legendary selves! If you wonder what that might be, stay tuned, because there is a new IC Course coming… If you have an immediate image of your own legendary self, try to befriend them… it is so worth it.

Heartfelt, wherever you may be,

Unterschrift Johanna (c) Johanna Ringe 2014 ff. www.dein-buntes-leben.de